TrevorR

Ooooh, Matron!

I know exactly how good a player I am... How good am I? ...I'm alright.

@Highfox I hope you’ll be updating this post in about 2 months time... wink wink

I’ll probably pick up the two CD digipack at £11.99 with the new stereo mix and remastered 1975 mix pus bonus tracks... if only to get the original version of Run With The Fox and Return Of The Fox in CD/digital format finally! Had the 7” and love that song!

Gotta join in the fun... here is my rig run down... Main basses: 1985 Wal Mk 1 Custom Bass (flats) 1979 Wal Pro 2E Bass (flats) And sometimes 1981 Aria SB700 (rounds) (Plus Signature/Build-a-Bass Frankenjazz on permanent loan to a chum, Faith Neptune Titan acoustic bass, Hand built Tony Revell acoustic bass) Pedaltrain pedal board: TC Polytune - Little Lehle switcher -| EHX Bass Soul Food - Morley Dual Bass Wah - EHX Stereo Pulsar Tremolo - Boss CE-2B Chorus |- Tech 21 Sansamp VTDI -> to PA and/or amp T-REX Fuel Tank power supply Amp and Cabs: MarkBass Little Mark LMII (500W) MarkBass Traveler 2x10 cab MarkBass Traveler 1x15 cab Cables by Cleartone/Session & OBBM/Rock-Wire

That is a gorgeous bit of padauk and the matching headstock facing works so well with it. Enjoy when it finally arrives!!!

And perhaps an Aria SB1000 tho, the ones you chose are more First Division iconic than the SBs (much as I love them). Fantastic pic BTW, totally love it.

Just a brief meander OT... nothing to stress about. It has been known to happen on the internet before. I’m sure that normal service will be resumed shortly. Well, you may have three customers for one of your gigs down South in the summer. Been wondering what would make a good first proper gig experience for our 7 year old and the ELO Experience sounds like a good candidate to me. Of course, we could go see Jeff himself but £100 per half decent seat at the O2 and dragging an over-tired, hyped up boy back home on tubes and trains at nearly midnight kinda take the shine off that idea. ___________________________________________________________ Now back on topic... I quite enjoyed private parties and corporates as a covers gig for all the positives stated above. But you needed to be able to read the room and react/adapt accordingly... it you’d planned a set packed with Oasis which consistently fell flat but they went mental for the Doobies and Elvis track hidden in the middle of the set, drop Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova and up the China Grove, Sweet Home Alabama and Johnny B Goode content... A nicely bevvied audience helps too. Of course we had the opposite too. An audience who wanted to sit and chat. Well, out came the James Taylor stuff for the first two sets which they loved as background music. Then in the last set when they’d had their chats and drinks out came the singalong party stuff and they lapped it up. You really need to play to the room!

Funny, I was just wondering the other week whether Jeff taking to the stage again had dropped the bottom out of The ELO Experience's market or whether the increased profile and scarcity of Wembley/O2 tickets had actually increased demand.

But at least if a band is booked by a massive ELO fan you at least stand a 50/50 chance of the audience joining in... pity the function where the guy booking the band is a massive "The Fall" fan...

Yeah, Cheyenne Series was my first thought too.

Plus the inch thick foam rubber mats on all the drums...

Actually, at the moment I love it. It makes me chortle so much. Give it a few more months... Fortunately I’m not prone to Expletive Delighted outbursts so it’s rare to fall foul for me...

"derrière about" - I love it!!!! That should, of course been "a@se about"

Aren't Iron Maiden one of those bands who are usually very picky about TV appearances and try to apply a "We PLAY or we don't play." rule. Also I love the fact that Adrian has clearly said to the others in the green room, "Brilliant idea lads, but it you think I'm going to let Niko derrière about with my nice white Jackson and get a load of scratches on it..."

How about a Basschat Builders session with Andy, Pete Stroud and the like showing off some of their builds and chatting about the challenges of making instruments? As a guest builder/company we could ask someone like Bernie Goodfellow? Guitar Guitar to do a feedback session similar to the Andertons one? Just freewheeling here...

If Gary brings "The Axe" we'll have to insist he comes "in character" and full regalia!!! Or at the very least his "Soft Rock Ballad Stetson"!!!

Been wondering about special guests... I can't help with any contacts or hook-ups. However, Dave Swift and Rhino have both been regular attendees in the past. I wonder whether they might be coaxed to give an insight into their playing or their careers. Also, I would love to head Neil Murray, as one of my early bass inspirations, talking about his life playing bass (from the National Youth Jazz Orchestra to touring the world's enormodromes, to working in the pit for We Will Rock You). What about Lol Cottle? He plays a bit in the Surrey area, esp at Boaters in Kingston, but I'm not sure where he's based. Another player with a hugely interesting CV. On techniques and the like, Dave Marks (Bass Guitar columnist, bass teacher, session player, rock and jazz sidesman etc), lives in the London region. He is someone I do kinda know and could ask if he would be interested. Top player and absolutely hilarious to boot. Might be dependent on whether he has a paying gig or not.

No he wasn’t, it was some unknown piano playing bloke called Reginald Dwight.

Of course, it’s not strictly necessary to palm mute when no one has actually plugged in your guitars and basses!

OK, that was odd... properly stuffed up my formatting there!

Poor old AAE... the production team forgot to turn on the feed into the actual studio but had it going out on the TV. They were waiting to start in embarrassed silence. Hence the smattering of applause half way through when the music starts and then Julieanne Regan actually does start singing.

Nice! Personally I reckon the open book models are dead classy so not being a batwing model is no loss really!

And they keep on coming thick and fast...